THAT AUTUMN, A RESEARCH VESSEL called the Glomar Challenger sailed over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to drill holes and sample sediment. Fossils within the sediment samples they retrieved gave scientists a ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

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In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...

President Donald Trump’s push to take control of Venezuela’s oil has focused global attention on the South American nation’s ...

One Nation mines the resentment of those who feel looked down on by “lanyard class” professionals and ignored by mainstream ...

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On Dec. 24, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan's southeastern coastal county of Taitung. That quake also shook ...

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile in July 2024—and it wasn’t supposed to be that strong. Unlike Chile ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

More than a billion years ago, a shallow basin in what is now northern Ontario held a subtropical lake. The setting likely ...